On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> No. Try for a patch that guesses how big the password file is (try
> using stat()) and tunes the cache dynamically.
>
> Hardcoding this at _build_ time is not any sort of "right" solution.
Agreed on all counts. I'd also like to add a vote for this since
we have multiple machines with 16k user password files. I had intended to
start looking at the code and offer a solution instead of a me too, but it
sounds like others are already on the right track, so I'll be glad to test
something if someone comes up with patches.
Doug
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